I wish I knew **

I wish I knew; stories of Shanghai ** 2010 Jia Zhang Ke

Snippets of famous people in recent history of Shanghai, China, Hong Kong.
We never really get to know the inner characters of these people. The section on Fei Mu and the actrice is most interesting because of the original Fei Mu movie itself. Its a very restrained movie on love and passion that came and went without much things happening. This type of subtle inner turmoil film is very rare and we have the actrice talking about how that movie came about. All the other characters were skimmings on the surface. There should be so much more we feel that there is but we dont see it, and the people intereviewed might not necessarily want to say so much either. So this film just falls flat, quietly.